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A flying start or no effect? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life

Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar
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2010-10
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Abstract
We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the

first year of her life. In particular, we examine a reform that increased paid and unpaid

maternity leave entitlements in Norway. In response to this reform, maternal leave

increased on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. We find that this

increase in maternal time with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high

school dropout rates, going up to 5.2 percentage points for those whose mothers have less

than 10 years of education. This effect is especially large for children of mothers who, in

the absence of the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave. Finally, there is a

weak impact on college attendance. The results also suggest that much of the impact of

early time with the child is at low levels of maternal education.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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2010:24

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